Fish-hook holder



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H. H.- GARLAND.

FISH HOOK HOLDER.

No. 595,998. Patented Dec. 21, 1897.

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NITED STATES PATENT. Erica.

HORATIO H. GARLAND, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FlSH-HOOK-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,998, dated December 21, 1897.

Application filed June 10, 1897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORATIO H. GARLAND, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Fish-Hook Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved fish-h ook holder which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to permit of conveniently andsecurely storing a large number of hooks and their snells in a comparatively small space and with the points of the hooks well protected and the snells perfectly straight, and also arranged to permit a fisherman to readily remove or replace any desired hook or snell at any time without disturbing or disarran gin g the others. The invention consists in certain features of construction that willbe fully described hereinafter, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indi cate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a face View of the improvement.

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig- 1.

The improved fish-hook holder is provided with a holder A proper, form ed at its ends with forks B B, having their members providedat their outer ends with lugs or projections O O and 0 0 respectively, as plainly indicated in the drawings. The projections at the ends of the fork members are placed a suitable distance apart, so that the bent portion of the shank of the hook D can be readily passed between two adjacent projections, so that the hook end passes between the members of the forks, as plainly indicated in the drawings.

The snell E for each hook D is engaged at its loop E with an endless elastic band F, adapted to be doubled up and hooked upon a projection at the opposite end of the holder on which the hook D is engaged. For instance, a hook D engaging the front member of the fork B has the elastic band F for its snell engaging a projection O on the front member of the other fork B, as shown in the drawings. In a like manner a hook D may engage the rear member of the fork B, and its snell is then connected by an elastic band F with a Serial No. 640,153. (No model.)

projection O of the rear member of the fork B, as illustrated in the drawings. Thus hooks maybe placed on each of the forked members and the snells extended over the front and rear faces of the holder and connected by elastic bands with projections at the ends of the holder.

As shown in the drawings, the holder isarranged for two dozen hooks and their snells, and it is evident that, owing to the elastic bands, any desired hook can be readily lifted out of the forked member and disengaged from the holder upon removing the elastic band from the snell. While such a hook is in use by a fisherman the elastic band F is hung over a lug G, having inwardly-beveled sides and formed at the side of the holder, as plainly indicated in the drawings.

The holder A may be made of sheet metal or other suitable material, or of wood, by providing front and back plates A A connected with each other at their opposite faces near the top and bottom ends by blocks A A so as to form the forks at the ends of the holder, the members of the forks being the ends of the plates.

It will be seen that by the arrangement described the hooks can be conveniently stored, so as to completely protect their. points and keep the snells straight to prevent entan glin g of the snells and hooks and at the same time permit of convenient removal of any one of the hooks for immediate use whenever desired.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A fish-hook holder,provided with a holder proper, adapted to carry on one end a hook, the shank of which extends between spaced projections formed at said end, and an elastic band adapted to engage the loop of a snell, and adapted to be hooked or looped upon a projection at the other end of the holder, subbers, for separating adjacent hooks and rethe fish-hooks between them, and of holding ceiving elastic bands for the snells of the means for retaining the fish-hooks. hooks, substantially as shown and described. i

3. A holder for fish-hooks, having each end HORATIO GARLAND 5 forked and the members of each fork having Witnesses:

lugs or projections extending outward from THOS. F. MCCARTHY, the said members, and capable of receiving EUGENE QQLDgEN. 

